Job Details
About the role
The Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Anthropology is a 30-month FTE role which starts on 1 January and ends on 30 June . The Research Fellow will carry out an individual research project into an environmental aspect of Indigenous cultures under socialism and/or beyond human anthropology of socialism. They will also contribute to investigation of the Socialist Anthropocene with a focus on the themes of agrarian politics, species under socialism and cultures of the Socialist Anthropocene, by engaging in an interdisciplinary dialogue with fellow members of the SAVA team. Based at the Postsocialist Art Centre in the Institute of Advanced Studies UCL, the successful candidate will contribute through their work on the environmental anthropology of socialism to the research outcomes of the SAVA project. The successful candidate will be required to contribute through an individual research project and participation in collaborative discussions to expanding knowledge of the Socialist Anthropocene. They will take part in regular group meetings and play an active role in biannual research weeks by contributing to the planning and realization of seminars, conferences and other public programmes. They will take advantage of the opportunity provided by the project to undertake individual fieldtrips to conduct their research in relevant archives and collections. They will also join the other members of the SAVA team on annual field trips to global sites of the Socialist Anthropocene. Working within a collaborative framework, they will contribute papers to project conferences and peer-reviewed special issues on the Socialist Anthropocene. They will contribute to the production of content for multimedia outputs, including podcasts and blog entries. The Research Fellow is also expected to act as an ambassador for the SAVA project within their discipline, by presenting their research at relevant conferences, publishing on the topic in scholarly journals and raising the visibility of the Socialist Anthropocene within their discipline and across the wider fields of the Environmental Humanities and Anthropocene Studies.
About you
The Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Anthropology will hold a PhD in anthropology or a related field in the humanities and social sciences awarded within the last three years. Their research should be focused on Indigenous cultures under socialism, including Soviet North and Central Asia and Mongolia, or the beyond human anthropology of socialism. Projects based on either case studies or comparative approaches to environmental anthropology of socialism, which deal with Indigenous ecological praxes and epistemologies, or which relate to the SAVA thematic focus on beyond human ecologies and cultures of the Socialist Anthropocene are likely to be of particular relevance. The candidate will have a record of peer-reviewed publications or other equivalent research outputs. They will be expected to demonstrate an openness to interdisciplinary and artistic methodologies, as well as skills in dissemination and communication of research and a willingness to participate fully in public facing events.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below: • Approximately 41 Days of holiday • Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme • Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) • Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan • Immigration loan • Relocation scheme for specific posts • On-Site nursery • On-site gym • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay • Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service • Discounted medical insurance
